Persicaria nepalensis

Persicaria nepalensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Polygonaceae, native to eastern Africa, including Madagascar, and parts of Asia. It has been introduced elsewhere: parts of Europe (including Great Britain), North America (including British Columbia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania) and northern South America.[2] The species was first described as Polygonum nepalense by Carl Meissner in 1826, and transferred to Persicaria by Hugo Gross in 1913.[1] (The same transfer was made later, in 1934, by Kingo Miyabe; as of 3 May 2019, Plants of the World Online used this transfer for the authorship of the combination.[2])

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  White flowers
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  Pink flowers

Persicaria nepalensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Polygonaceae
Genus:	Persicaria
Species:	P. nepalensis
Binomial name
Persicaria nepalensis (Meisn.) H.Gross[1]
Synonyms[2]
Cephalophilon nepalense (Meisn.) Tzvelev Persicaria alata (D.Don) Nakai Persicaria lyrata (Nakai) Nakai Persicaria perforata (Meisn.) H.Gross Polygonum alatum (D.Don) Buch.-Ham. ex Spreng. Polygonum guttuliferum Miq. ex Meisn. Polygonum lyratum Nakai Polygonum nepalense Meisn. Polygonum perforatum Meisn.